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"CLOSING THE SKILLS GAP
University Success is an academic course designed for English language learners preparing for mainstream academic environment. Authentic content is woven through reading, writing, and oral communication strands. The course - level by level - carefully scaffolds skill development to help students become autonomous learners, thereby closing the skills gap.

University Success Oral Communication, Advanced Level provides intensive skill development and expanded application - tied to specific learning outcomes - preparing students to understand and process lengthy academic lectures, defend their ideas, speak thoughtfully in discussions, and contribute to group projects. Authentic lecturers delivered by top professors from Stanford University provides real-life learning experiences.

FEATURES: Parts 1 and 2 include short lectures, classroom discussions. and panel discussions ranging from 2-8 minutes related to five content areas: Linguistics, Business Ethics, Earth Science, Medieval Culture, and Materials Engineering. These Lectures and discussions allow students to build essential listening and speaking skills.
Part 3 features authentic 20-minute lectures built around the same five academic disciplines. The lectures enable students to apply and expand the skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2.

Integration of the Student Book and MyEnglishLab provides a blended approach for a flexible program that adjusts to the needs of students and teachers." (Book Cover)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE:

Welcome to University Success

Key Features of University Success

Scope and Sequence

Acknowledgments

PART 1 Fundamental Reading Skills

U1 LINGUISTICS: Active Participation
Fundamental Skills: Be an active participant
Supporting Skills: Demonstrate interest and engagement — Identify and incorporate appropriate examples
Integrated Skills: Annotate texts
Language Skills: Use interjections
Vocabulary Strategy: Learn new words through context
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver a group presentation on an accent that is disappearing or has disappeared.

U2 BUSINESS ETHICS: Idea Development
Fundamental Skills: Develop ideas
Supporting Skills: Identify main ideas — Identify supporting ideas
Integrated Skills: Prepare an argument
Language Skills: Use adverb clauses to describe relationships
Vocabulary Strategy: Utilize stance adverbials to determine affective meaning
Apply Your Skills: Participate in a class debate regarding corporate ethics and social responsibility.

U3 EARTH SCIENCE: Extended Discourse
Fundamental Skills: Engage with extended discourse
Supporting Skills: Examine time frames in texts — Organize events by time frames
Integrated Skills: Summarize sequences of events
Language Skills: Use modals to describe possibilities and probabilities
Vocabulary Strategy: Learn vocabulary through word parts
Apply Your Skills: Prepare a presentation on a geologic time period and the changes.

U4 MEDIEVAL CULTURE: Narratives
Fundamental Skills: Identify narratives
Supporting Skills: Utilize spider maps — Recognize prosodic features
Integrated Skills: Identify narrative elements
Language Skills: Recognize time frames and aspect
Vocabulary Strategy: Identify collocations
Apply Your Skills: Prepare a presentation of a culturally-important narrative, end employs prosodic features.

U5 MATERIALS ENGINEERING: Academic Discussions
Fundamental Skills: Participate in academic discussions
Supporting Skills: Identify organizational patterns in dense lectures — Organize responses in complex discussions
Integrated Skills: Compare and contrast textbooks and lectures
Language Skills: Use language of comparison and contrast
Vocabulary Strategy: Learn vocabulary through graphic organizers
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver a pair presentation comparing the suitability of two different materials for a product.

PART 2 Critical Thinking Skills

U1 LINGUISTICS: Facts and Opinions
Fundamental Skills: Distinguish facts from opinions
Supporting Skills: Use signal phrases to state facts and opinions — Utilize idioms in discussions
Integrated Skills: Detect bias
Language Skills: Use change of topic signals
Vocabulary Strategy: Create an idiom journal
Apply Your Skills: Participate in a class debate on the need for having and using an official national dialect.

U2 BUSINESS ETHICS: Implications and Inferences
Fundamental Skills: Detect implications and inferences
Supporting Skills: Recognize and interpret hesitations — Assess your audience.
Integrated Skills: Select appropriate evidence
Language Skills: Use noun clauses to clarify
Vocabulary Strategy: Determine connotative meaning
Apply Your Skills: Prepare a pair presentation on a socially responsible global corporation and how it can serve as a model of good business practice.

U3 EARTH SCIENCE: Processes
Fundamental Skills: Identify a process
Supporting Skills: Identify descriptions of a process — Clarify each step or stage in a process.
Integrated Skills: Recognize definitions.
Language Skills: Notice boosting language.
Vocabulary Strategy: Recognizing collocations.
Apply Your Skills: Participate in a roundtable discussion on greenhouse gases and examine possible solutions to the problem.

U4 MEDIEVAL CULTURE: Style and Genre
Fundamental Skills: Identify style and genre
Supporting Skills: Distinguish types of appeals — Identify the rhetoric of appeals.
Integrated Skills: Using descriptive imagery.
Language Skills: Use similes and metaphors.
Vocabulary Strategy: Recognize idioms based on medieval culture.
Apply Your Skills: Prepare a presentation on how a song or film is representative of.

U5 MATERIALS ENGINEERING: Presentations
Critical Thinking Skills: Prepare formal presentations
Supporting Skills: Determine presentation purpose and structure — Select and integrate
Integrated Skills: Synthesize resources
Language Skills: Use language for linking ideas
Vocabulary Strategy: Learn vocabulary through categorization
Apply Your Skills: Prepare a formal presentation examining how synthetic polymers are.

PART 3 Extended Lectures

U1 LINGUISTICS
LECTURE: What Does My Accent Say About Me?
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver an individual presentation on the regional and educational background of a well-known American, and use that information to analyze that person’s accent and dialect.

U2 BUSINESS ETHICS
LECTURE: Developing Character – Moral Inquiry Through Literature
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver a pair presentation on a prominent business leader, and how that person’s behavior reflects the company’s ethics and impacts their brand.

U3 EARTH SCIENCE: Climate and Environmentalism
LECTURE: What Is the Anthropocene and Why Is It Important?
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and hold a class debate on the role that humanity

U4 MEDIEVAL CULTURE
LECTURE: How Lyrics Became Poetry: Troubadours and Songbooks
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and participate in a panel discussion of a

U5 MATERIALS ENGINEERING
LECTURE: An Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering and Their Application to Biomedical Materials
Research / Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver an individual presentation on the reasons that a change was made from a product’s original manufacturing material to the material currently being used.

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